2019 Great Lakes Regional Meeting of NORDP
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2019 NORDP Great Lakes Regional Meeting Program
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Sprints: From Ideation to Impact
Verhey-Henke, Ann
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Sustaining Interdisciplinary Research Initiatives: "So, we started this thing. How do we keep it going?"
Allen, Eva; Archibald, Sarah; Langlois, Maureen; Spellacy, Amy
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Publication Impact Metrics: Understanding the Landscape, Applications, and Partnerships
Nix, Tyler; Smith, Judy; Welzenbach, Rebecca
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We Have the Team, We Have the Funding Opportunity, Now What? Best Practices, Tools & Resources to Support Large-Scale Proposals
Ramsey, Meagan; Jones, Santinio
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Growing RD Capacity: Training Research Administrators in Proposal Editing
Li, Melissa W.
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Out of Silos into Interdisciplinary Collaborations: One School's Path
Archibald, Sarah; O'Callaghan, Elizabeth
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Behind the Scenes of a Research Development Day
Brassard, Jessica; Larsen, Peter
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Session 5
Onboarding and Beyond for Research Faculty: Taking the "They Don't Know What They Don't Know" Out of the Equation
Fleming, Alfreda; Marshall, Kaitlyn; Torres, Jackie; Vanderkuyl, Nancy; Youmans, Becky
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Item Sprints: From Ideation to Impact(Ohio State University. Office of Research, 2019-10-21) Verhey-Henke, AnnIn 2016, a team of designers collaborated with faculty to create the first ever Grant Sprint™ to create a more creative and collaborative approach to grant ideation and writing. This process, rooted in the principles of design and design practice, sought to infuse research ideation with an innovation and impact mindset. Grant Sprint™s area designed and facilitated experience that catalyzes teams using the power of divergent and convergent thinking, to uncover new innovative ideas and approaches to their work, to achieve a shared vision, and uncover opportunities to address societal challenges. Since its first pilot, our method has evolved into a process that supports faculty from the earliest stage of ideation and partnership building to the path toward broader impact and public engagement. We are re-imaging how these tools can influence, create value and support the research development community and are excited to share our process and learnings with the NORDP community. This session will introduce the sprint method and approach by using both general and specific examples of how the tools of design facilitation can be used to redesign the research process for faculty and their teams at all the stages of their journey.Item 2019 NORDP Great Lakes Regional Meeting Program(Ohio State University. Office of Research, 2019-10-21)Item Sustaining Interdisciplinary Research Initiatives: "So, we started this thing. How do we keep it going?"(Ohio State University. Office of Research, 2019-10-21) Allen, Eva; Archibald, Sarah; Langlois, Maureen; Spellacy, AmyThis session will address what's involved in successfully sustaining an interdisciplinary institutional initiative once it has been launched. We will address considerations such as integrating an initiative into established institutional structures, transitioning from the founding funding source, expanding the research community, balancing scope creep and opportunity costs, and escaping burnout and roadblocks. The session will comprise three parts: 1) setting the stage with case studies drawn from the presenters' experiences, 2) participant brainstorming on "pits" and "peaks" they've experienced in sustaining interdisciplinary initiatives, and 3) Q&A and group discussion.Item Publication Impact Metrics: Understanding the Landscape, Applications, and Partnerships(Ohio State University. Office of Research, 2019-10-21) Nix, Tyler; Smith, Judy; Welzenbach, RebeccaThis session will provide a broad overview of publication impact metrics and tools and offer specific steps for researchers to understand and manage their online scholarly presence. The panel will begin by orienting participants to publication metrics commonly used to demonstrate scholarly impact, as well as their responsible use. Content will cover citation-based metrics (such as the Journal Impact Factor and H-Index), social-media based metrics, and some tools used to gather this data. Then, we will give an overview of the U-M Library's 2019 Research Impact Challenge. The challenge, conducted by email to a group of about 275 participants, provided one activity per day for two weeks to help participants manage their online research profiles and better understand the reach and impact of their work. We will introduce the content of the challenge, and report out on lessons learned through assessment, including types of scholars most likely to participate and activities they found most valuable. The aims of the session are for participants to: 1) understand the conversation surrounding the use of publication impact metrics; and, 2) become familiar with tools and best practices for managing one's online scholarly presence 3) visualize opportunities for campus and library partnerships.Item We Have the Team, We Have the Funding Opportunity, Now What? Best Practices, Tools & Resources to Support Large-Scale Proposals(Ohio State University. Office of Research, 2019-10-21) Ramsey, Meagan; Jones, SantinioTo be successful, large, complex team grants require a significant amount of coordination and management during all stages of proposal development. We will present best practices, tools/resources, and lessons learned for developing large interdisciplinary team-based proposals. As examples, we will draw from our experience with several recently submitted large-scale grants, including submissions to NIH (Program Project/P01), DoD (Focused Program Award), and the American Heart Association (Strategically Focused Research Network center grant), one of which has already been funded. Our panel represents both proposal development and project management areas. During this panel presentation, we will describe resources, tools, and strategies we used to successfully work with multiple busy clinicians and investigators; facilitate the team's collaboration; manage the writing and editing; and efficiently collect letters of support, biosketches, primary technical documents, and supporting figures. We will cover tools and resources that were particularly beneficial, such as detailed timelines, writing guides and templates, collaboration tools, and project management tools, as well as tips for team meetings and facilitation. We also will share important lessons learned from these complex submissions related to identifying and utilizing existing university resources, getting team buy-in, and keeping team members engaged and on-task.Item Growing RD Capacity: Training Research Administrators in Proposal Editing(Ohio State University. Office of Research, 2019-10-21) Li, Melissa W.To help research administrators acquire basic editing skills, the Medical School Office of Research and Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research at the University of Michigan jointly piloted a training workshop, titled Beyond the Admin Shell: Proposal Editing 101. The training contents includes clarity, organization, conciseness, consistency, formatting, grammar, punctuation and spelling, followed by hands-on practice on an NIH Specific Aims page. Due to high demand, five sessions were offered within the first year, totaling nearly two hundred attendees. The survey data show that 1) most attendees were staff (i.e., the target audience); 2) the audience's editing experience varies across a broad spectrum (none more than 10 years); 3) the workshop made the audience feel confident in their ability to edit proposals; and 4) the majority of the audience would like to attend an advanced proposal editing workshop, which may be the next step.Item Out of Silos into Interdisciplinary Collaborations: One School's Path(Ohio State University. Office of Research, 2019-10-21) Archibald, Sarah; O'Callaghan, ElizabethThis session will focus on the UW-Madison School of Education Grand Challenges initiative, which has supported 21 new research partnerships and just completed its third round of grant funding. The UW-Madison School of Education is home to 10 departments ranging from education policy to kinesiology to art. One of the main goals of the Grand Challenges program is to move faculty out of academic silos and into promising, new, interdisciplinary collaborations. Presenters will share the story of the SOE Grand Challenges with an emphasis on this process. Attendees will hear how our team facilitated interdisciplinary faculty collaborations that have the potential to magnify both external funds coming into our institution and social impact. In addition, presenters will focus on how the program at UW-Madison is distinct from other university-led Grand Challenges, including allowing faculty to articulate their own challenge, soliciting lots of feedback from faculty, offering grants of various sizes, having MFA students create posters to visually communicate faculty ideas, and providing multiple networking opportunities for faculty, staff, and students. The session will include time for a short Q&A session followed by a strategic brainstorming of what our next iteration of Grand Challenges could look like.Item Behind the Scenes of a Research Development Day(Ohio State University. Office of Research, 2019-10-21) Brassard, Jessica; Larsen, PeterInitiated in 2009 with a focus on early-career faculty, Michigan Technological University holds an annual day-long, centrally organized workshop focused on research development. The event has undergone significant revision in its 11 years of existence. This presentation and discussion will explore the creation, implementation, and evolution of this campus-wide, researcher-focused event. We will discuss event goals, planning strategies, lessons learned (both successes and failures), evaluation strategies, significant changes, and future plans. The overall goal of this session is to describe Michigan Tech's approach and initiate a discussion with attendees to learn from each other and share strategies and ideas related to on-campus, PI-focused research development events. The presenters also will give participants draft agenda frameworks that they have used throughout the history of the Michigan Tech "RD Day."Item Onboarding and Beyond for Research Faculty: Taking the "They Don't Know What They Don't Know" Out of the Equation(Ohio State University. Office of Research, 2019-10-21) Fleming, Alfreda; Marshall, Kaitlyn; Torres, Jackie; Vanderkuyl, Nancy; Youmans, BeckyFaculty new to an institution typically go through an orientation process during which they learn about resources that may help them navigate their new environment. One topic faculty at a research institution must grasp is research administration. While awareness and understanding of available research administration resources can ease faculty's administrative burden and make the process more positive, research onboarding, particularly at a large research institution like the University of Michigan, may not be standard across the university or even within schools/units. We have developed a research administration onboarding program designed for faculty in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan that goes beyond the orientation basics to offer the tools and knowledge necessary for a smooth transition into the research enterprise. Topics covered at the onboarding event include overviews of the pre-and post-award processes, unfunded agreements, and compliance and reporting. We endeavor to make faculty feel protected rather than burdened by the various required levels of internal review and approval. Our goal is to alleviate the grant submission related administrative burden to allow faculty to focus their time and energy on the science. Among the positive outcomes from research administration onboarding are: stronger relationships and partnerships based on mutual trust; faculty and their research teams knowing who to contact when an issue arises; the department demonstrating its commitment to research; and, the onboarding team being unified as a team and equipped to handle the everyday challenges of research administration at a large research institution.